This is a great listing to check your innovation path and possibly give you some good product ideas. The best parts about it are: the one sentence summaries below each company name about what makes it so special, and fact they have it broken down by sector. A sure fire wire way for you to grab a ton of valuable information in a very little amount of time!

With the increase in IOT (Internet of Things) devices, users are beginning to interface with machines in new ways. We currently use screens to interact with most computers and devices. However, we are starting to interact via speaking verbal commands and cues, using motion gestures with our hands and bodies. What does this mean to designers when our interfaces are no longer constrained by screens? You get a what is now being called a "Zero UI".

Read more about what Andy Goodman, group director of Fjord had to say about it last week at San Francisco's SOLID Conference...

- Smarter Siri- Improved search- Improved battery life- Apple Pay Expansion and App Integration- Passbook becomes Wallet- Newstand dropped, new media app called "News" aggregating news from multiple sources to be released- Apple Maps to add Transits- Improved keyboard- Multitasking on iPad and Split View- Open Developer Kits- HomeKit devices accessed from iCloud- Swift 2 will be open source- WatchOS 2 more features: timepiece, new contact management, better integration with iPHone's Health app, Apple Pay improvements and Wallet integration- WatchKit to have the app logic running on the watch itself to be more responsive- WatchOS 2 to be open for developers to work with more features- Apple Music coming June 30th

39% of world is connected to the internet - Facebook and Google see getting the other 5 billion online as a huge opportunity.

Platforms Rule: Top internet companies are all platforms;

Apple, Google, Alibaba, Facebook, Amazon

The untapped industries with the largest opportunity for innovation are;

Government, Healthcare and Education

India, Brazil and China are the next growth frontier

Average American spends 5.6 hours a day on the internet. Mostly on their mobile device

Mobile Ad Spend to rise

Video viewing on mobile devices growing fast

Tech is changing enterprise process all together

People spend most of their time in messaging apps

Look to the east for trends in mobile

User Generated Content is Exploding

Shift for teens in social platforms from the big 3 (facebook, twitter, linkedin) to Snapchat and Instagram. i.e. more visual experiences.

The on-demand era is exploding. Get anything, anywhere, anytime has become a reality with services providing on-demand for just about anything. i.e. taxis, cars, meals, groceries, etc. 44% of their workforce are millenials

Google is looking to get closer to the hardware and own the IOT Operating System (OS) with its new Real Time Operating System (RTOS) Brillo...

These RTOS are designed to work with very little memory and can run on chips to act as the brain to a connected device such as your refrigerator, golf clubs, smart lock, or anything else we can dream to connect to the internet.

Google will be racing against others such as the Nucleus OS from Mentor Graphics, ARM embed OS, Huawei's LiteOS, Contiki and Microsoft's IOT version of Windows 10 OS.